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Lorcan’s recent blog post on “Research information management systems – a new service category?” has drawn the attention of some of the euroCRIS board members and so I was invited …
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The third version of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is on the cusp of being released, which prompts me to offer up a quickie history of EAD’s development and to summarize what’s coming …
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Some of you may already know about my “MARC Usage in WorldCat” project, where I simply expose the contents of a number of MARC subfields in ordered lists of strings. The …
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It has been no secret that we are using a vocabulary developed by Google, Microsoft, and others for exposing structured metadata on the web. Documented at Schema.org, this vocabulary is …
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For the past few years, Linked Data has been a buzzword at many of the major library conferences around the world. Linked Data has been the subject of paper presentations, …
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Many really important things are not recognized as such when they occur. Recognition only dawns slowly, as the implications of what has happened sinks in. I think this is one …
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Today in Cape Town, South Africa, at the OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Council (EMEARC) Meeting, my colleagues Richard Wallis and Ted Fons made an announcement that should make …
Read MoreAs part of my work to reveal exactly how the MARC standard has been used over the several decades it has existed (available at “MARC Usage in WorldCat”), I’ve always …
Read MoreAs recently announced by Terry Reese, his program MARCEdit now includes a great set of new capabilities for users of WorldCat. Recently made possible by the release of the WorldCat …
Read MoreI’m pleased to report that we have an article in the most recent Code4Lib Journal! The article, Thresholds for Discovery: EAD Tag Analysis in ArchiveGrid, and Implications for Discovery Systems …
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